Last updated on February 6th, 2024 at 11:26 am
It seems that we cannot go a day without hearing about another AI application that could potentially change the world. Healthcare is a changing industry that requires even more now than at any time in history to cope with population increases, new diseases, and aging populations.
Healthcare will need to evolve to accommodate the emerging issues in a rapidly changing world. AI and its related technologies promise to offer answers by cutting costs, improving diagnosis accuracy, speeding up drug development, and more.
This article examines how AI is changing healthcare in the present and shaping its future.
- Clinical Diagnosis and Predictive Care
Hepatitis B, gastric cancer, and colorectal cancer are among the illnesses for which AI-assisted diagnostic tools have been created.
It may be used to identify cancer, triage crucial imaging findings, indicate urgent irregularities, assist physicians in prioritizing patients with life-threatening conditions, diagnose irregular heartbeats, forecast stroke outcomes, and assist with interventions. For example, companies like Novarad are implementing AI in mammography to improve doctor efficiency, lower false negatives in cancer detection, assist in quality assurance of images, and improve resource utilization and cost-effectiveness in healthcare.
AI is a vast universe of data, algorithms, analytics, deep learning, neural networks, and discoveries that continually evolve to meet the demands of the healthcare business and its customers.
- Drug Discovery
Drug discovery is an expensive venture. It is estimated that developing a new treatment costs $2.6 billion from start to finish. The sad part is that most of it goes down the drain, given that nine out of ten candidates in the trials to regulatory phases fail. No one wants to do things differently, given the high safety standards required to make a reliable drug.
AI has shown it can significantly cut down on the inaccuracy and development timeline, allowing for more research into drugs for groups considered too small to be worth the price tag associated with developing a cure.
- Conversational AI in Healthcare
Conversational AI healthcare is a solution that uses various AI processes like Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing to create automated conversation bots people can interact with on a complex level.
They will not be merely spitting out answers that fit closest but also be capable of understanding text, speech, the context in which it is written/spoken to enable actual conversations indistinguishable from talking to human healthcare professionals.
- Connected Care
In a connected care ecosystem, things like ultrasounds, thermometers, glucose monitors, electrocardiograms, and other medical devices collect data and communicate with each other to present users with actionable insights on their health.
Even the job of finding the best candidates to take on the job relies ever more on insights that ensure the best people are reached and hired to offer the best care.
AI and ML can forecast, interpret, learn, and act, revolutionizing and strengthening health care. The patients can be prepared to continue healing at home with connected care without jeopardizing their health. At the same time, the monitoring and data can be used to develop and encourage healthier habits.
- Personal Health Assistants
Many consumer-facing machines aim to improve a healthy lifestyle thanks to the internet of medical things (IoMT) and powerful AI. In recent years, we’ve seen smartphone applications, wearables, and dedicated trackers continuously collect data and evaluate vitals.
These devices provide insights based on the data, with most of them keeping data on their hard drives or the cloud. Medical practitioners can obtain information and utilize it to create a medical report.
Final Thoughts
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Doctors will not be replaced by computers but will operate alongside them. The objective is to make healthcare services more affordable and reliable. AI is still a recent technology in health care, so it has a long way to go, but it is making significant progress.
As this incredible technology advances, we look forward to improvements and new uses. Progress will be made in the wellness business and every aspect of modern life.
